The Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) on Monday declared Canada-based absconding gangster Satwinder Singh alias Goldy Brar as a terrorist under Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act, 1967 on charges of his involvement in smuggling of high-grade arms, ammunitions and explosive materials throug
Mahrang Baloch, the face of the movement who advocates an end to enforced disappearances and extrajudicial killings in the Baloch community, outlined a series of demands during a press conference in Islamabad.
Amid the ongoing protests by Baloch activists against 'enforced disappearances' and alleged extrajudicial killings by the Pakistani forces, Zaheer Baloch, a PhD student has been released by Islamabad police after a five-day disappearance, reported The Balochistan Post on Thursday.
A motorcycle rally was carried out in Pakistan's Gwadar led by Chairman Maulana Hidayatur Rehman Baloch on Tuesday calling for an end to extrajudicial killings and the enforced disappearances of political activists, students and human rights activists, Pakistan-based Dawn reported.
In a post on X after the meeting with party leaders from J-K and Ladakh, Kharge said that his party is 'deeply concerned about the rise in terror attacks in Pir Panjal and the targeted killings of Kashmiri Pandits in the last few years'.
Baloch protesters demanding an end to enforced disappearances and extrajudicial killings in their province issued a three-day ultimatum to the state on Saturday, as per Dawn newspaper.
Baloch people carried out rallies and demonstrations against "state terrorism" and acts of forced disappearances, extra-judicial killings and fake encounters by the Pakistan government at multiple locations across the country.
Islamabad police on started dispersing the protesters late at night on Thursday as the long march against alleged extrajudicial killings in Balochistan continued in full swing, VOA Urdu reported.
The Long March, initiated on December 6 from Turbat, vehemently opposes what it claims the 'Baloch Genocide', condemning enforced disappearances and custodial killings of missing individuals in Balochistan.
The protesters vowed to march towards Islamabad despite the closure of transport and to raise their voice against the recovery of their loved ones and against the ongoing genocide and state terrorism in Balochistan, The Balochistan Yakjehti committee said.
After a sit-in was called off in Dera Gazi Khan on Monday against the alleged genocide by Pakistani forces on people of Balochistan as well as enforced disappearances, the Baloch Long march will now start to move towards Islamabad today, according to Dawn.
Led by Mohammad Asif Laghari, the BYC's long march was intercepted on Shah Sikander Road. The police claimed the participants resisted, leading to the detention of several men and women, although the women were later released.